{"id":52340,"date":"2024-02-01T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=52340"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:44:57","slug":"mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","title":{"rendered":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to pull out of the West African regional bloc, Ecowas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Those three nations accused Ecowas of posing a threat to their sovereignty. They had all been founding members when Ecowas was set up almost 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday from Moussa Faki Mahamat, the AU\u2019s commission chairperson, \u201ccalls on regional leaders to intensify the dialogue between the Ecowasleadership and the three aforementioned countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria had also rebuked Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger for leaving Ecowas, saying they were of letting their people down by quitting the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to pull out of the West African regional bloc, Ecowas. Those three nations accused Ecowas of posing a threat to their sovereignty. They had all been founding members when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-52340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\"},\"wordCount\":136,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\",\"name\":\"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405,\"caption\":\"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU - Gambia","description":"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU","og_description":"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":405,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU","datePublished":"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au"},"wordCount":136,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Gambia"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au","name":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg","datePublished":"2024-02-01T18:13:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The African Union (AU) has declared its \u201cdeep regret\u201d over the decision this weekend by military regimes in Burkina F ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1706789356.23342.jpg","width":720,"height":405,"caption":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/mali-burkina-and-niger-ecowas-exit-of-deep-regret-to-au#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mali, Burkina and Niger Ecowas exit of \u2018deep regret\u2019 to AU"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}